415 Hillsborough Street

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HOUSE
c. 1825, 1950s
Set back from Hillsborough Street on a narrow lot, this one-story house has a side-gabled Colonial Revival-style wing at the front with a gabled ell that connects to a larger, front-gabled section at the rear (west). The front wing is two bays wide and single-pile with plain weatherboards, six-over-nine wood-sash windows and a dentil cornice. The one-and-a-half-story gabled section at the rear has an entrance on the left (south) elevation; the double-leaf three-panel door with five-light-over-one-panel sidelights and a decorative fanlight may be the enclosure of an original porch. A portion of the house was originally constructed about 1825 and was moved to the site from Chatham County and then heavily remodeled and enlarged. A one-story house with front-facing porch appears on the site, though closer to the road, on the 1932 and 1949 Sanborn map, indicating that the current house was moved to the site between 1949 and 1974 to replace the earlier house.

In the 2015 survey, this was deemed a Noncontributing Building.

SOURCE: Heather Wagner Slane, National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, Orange County, OR1750 (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, 2015), courtesy of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office.